The Associated Press

Many NFL players shudder when they think about what Plaxico Burress is going through—and what still awaits.

Players across the league think about how difficult his life has become. They think about how much worse it could have been. And they think about how—in a culture where athletes and guns seem to go together far too often—it easily could have been them.

“It’s eye-opening, there’s no doubt about it,” Falcons linebacker Keith Brooking said.

Burress carried a loaded handgun into a Manhattan night club and it accidentally fi...

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